guest speakers at the event:

Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington


Michael Gillon, astronomer at the University of Liege in Belgium


Sean Carey, manager of NASA's Spitzer Science Center at Caltech/IPAC, Pasadena, California


Nikole Lewis, astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore


The Engineer, Prometheus


Sara Seager, professor of planetary science and physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge